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12-year-old girl in custody over gunfire at Los Angeles school

Bradford Murphy |Sunday, February 04, 2018

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A young man said he dropped everything and rushed to Sal Castro Middle School when his little sister called him and said, "Someone just got shot, I need you".

Mr Im declined to say if investigators believed the girl deliberately opened fire at Salvador Castro Middle School, near the city's downtown district, on Thursday. "There's a lot of things I'm sure are going through her mind right now - she's only 12 years old". "They thought it was a fake gun".

A 15-year-old boy was also shot in the head, and doctors said that it doesn't appear to be life-threatening.

"Someone made a decision to bring a gun, I guess someone was accidentally playing around with it", said Benjamin, a 12-year-old 7th-grader, whose guardian asked that his last name not be used. The bullet went through the wrist of the girl and struck the boy in the head, the LAPD said.

"On Thursday evening, the girl was booked into Juvenile Hall on suspicion of negligently discharging a firearm", AP reported.

"As a parent, this is everyone's worst-case nightmare - a worst-case scenario and a nightmare for all of us", Robert Arcos, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's Operations-Central Bureau, told reporters Thursday.

Just yesterday, another shooting occurred in an American public school; however, this time authorities are concluding that the incident was accidental.

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